Research activities

he research conducted within the Interdisciplinary Research Group in Economic Law (GRIDE) attempts to answer the following questions 
How does a company function? How does it adapt to its environment and react to market demands? How does it demonstrate transparency? How does it change its size and structure? How does it demonstrate mobility?

• The notion of enterprise (private-public, market/non-market sector, public-private partnership, commercial company, group or association).
• The legal structures of the company.
•  Corporate governance
• Shareholder democracy.
• The rights of certain stakeholders within the company.
• The scope and implementation of the concept of transparency within and outside of listed companies.
• The status and responsibility of company directors.
• Corporate restructuring and reorganization.
• Corporate mobility.
• Guidance and safeguarding of companies in difficulty.
• The social responsibility of the company.
• The company facing globalization (WTO).

Networks

• Several members of GRIDE participate actively in the editorial boards of theRevue pratique des sociétés - Tijdschrift voor Rechtspersoon en Vennootschap (RPS-TRV) .
• GRIDE also hosts the editorial secretariat of the Revue de droit international et de droit comparé.
• The GRIDE participates in the work of the Belgian Center for Company Law of which several of its professors and researchers are members. Professor Yves De Cordt is a member of the Board of Directors.
• Several professors and researchers of the GRIDE and CRIDES are members of the Association Internationale de Droit Economique (A.I.D.E.) and of the l'Institut Euro-Africain de Droit économique (INEADEC) with which they organize research activities on the theme of international economic law. Professor Alexia Autenne is the President of the A.I.D.E. and Professor Henri Culot is the Secretary General.